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De La Salle's spirituality for educators, which melds prayer and action, compassion and practicality, can be read afresh in every age: it transcends time and place.
This is a compilation of Morning and Evening Prayer Services for Lasallian communities, along with a set of Nigh Prayer settings and three options for a Communion Service Outside of Mass. It is primarily focused on communities of Brothers and Lasallian Partners but may be used in any context within a Lasallian School.
This work addresses Lasallian pedagogical spirituality, defined as the dynamic integration of foundational convictions, basic operative commitments, and consistent practices permeating the teaching dimensions of schools that claim the heritage of St. John Baptist de La Salle and the Brothers of the Christian Schools. The dissertation examines the content of Lasallian pedagogical spirituality and proposes measures for realizing its vitality within Lasallian school life. Particular pedagogical characteristics, components of an overall pedagogical spirituality, are present in the original charism of St. John Baptist de La Salle. The basic operative commitments that underlie those characteristic...
This volume is a resource for teachers, administrators, board members and all who are engaged in Lasallian educational ministries today. It reflects on the life and times of De La Salle and the early Institute and their significance in today's educational world. There are questions at the end of each chapter along with a description of the Lasallian School as found in the tradition. The book contains an extensive annotated bibliography of Lasallian resources as well as a glossary of Lasallian terms. A model Lasallian Mission and Vision Statement gives any Lasallian group an excellent example of such statements
A book of decorum and civility which attempted to provide religious motivation for customs in seventeenth-century French society. [This is] a classroom reader originally intended for use by boys in the Christian Schools ... which had a wide readership even outside the schools for almost two centuries ... [It is] one of the most popular school books on politeness in the history of education.--Intro., p. xi.
"It is a fact that events that occur during early childhood that is, from prenatal until age eight are significant determinants of how well a child's brain matures, ability to develop language skills and to interact with society (Save the Children International, 2012; Lee & Hayden, 2009). This period shapes the rest of the child's life. Early Childhood education is among the many interventions whose aim is to reach all children during their early childhood and to tackle key issues that will affect them later on in their live. In the heart of this, this book presents seventeen articles selected from among articles presented during 2011 interdisciplinary session of the Faculty of Education at ...
"The Vocation of the Child seeks to understand the child as a person in his or her own right, as a member of family and of community, and as a son or daughter of a God who came to earth as a child. Distinguished jurist Patrick McKinley Brennan has gathered fifteen other respected scholars from various fields to consider seriously the vocation of the child."--Jacket.